Michi's Japanese name means beauty. Through her art, this is what she has brought into the world. She graduated from the demanding and honored Japan Women's University in Tokyo and true to the Japanese' passion for the intellect, has never stopped evolving and educating herself.

After three decades as an American native, Michi has unified the Eastern and Western influences upon herself and her art. The beautiful and technically mature elements of craft in her paintings are as interesting and important as the form and content of each piece. Michi explores the diversity of life with her fanciful, brightly colored landscapes inspired by the rolling hills near her Oklahoma home. Overflowing with the mixed media textures of fabric, paint, and hand made paper, her art evokes a playful sense of peace, harmony, balance, and form in each whimsical composition. Michi is less concerned with making a statement with her art. Her enjoyment is the process of painting itself.

Michi is represented by galleries around the globe and is in many corporate and museum collections.